Weiner graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison (B.A. Sociology) and from DePaul University College of Law, Chicago, Illinois (JD). After eleven years defending criminal cases in state and federal courts, Weiner settled in San Francisco, CA to begin writing career and practice civil law. His clients have ranged from an inventor of the MRI machine to death row inmates, from an NBA All-Star to Koko the signing gorilla. He has also served as corporate counsel to Skyy Spirits, LLC, has advised the Artist’s Guild of San Francisco, The Gorilla Foundation, was a Director of the Golda Foundation, a non-profit corporation supporting artists; he currently serves on the Board of Directors of TheLitquake Foundation, a non-profit corporation that produces the largest annual literary festival west of the Mississippi; he advises the Society for the Arts Preservation of America, a non-profit corporation supporting artists. Weiner’s biography appears in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Law and Wikipedia. He is a member of the California Bar, the Illinois Bar, the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeal, the District Courts of Northern Illinois and Northern California and the California Writers Club Berkeley Branch. He lives in San Francisco with his wife, oil and mixed media painter, Nancy Calef.